Hard drive assistance requested.

hobib_ali

hobib_ali

hobib_ali

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Hi

Currently I have 2 HD on my PC 1tb and 2tb

the 1tb is my primary drive but it is at 90% capacity, my 2tb drive is at 80% capacity, the main drive 1tb is full of installed steam/origin and ubi games.

my 2nd drive is stuffed with the same, i have like 300+ games installed, around 500+ on both drives

Ive un-installed most programmes and games but kept the best ones i play and with dlc expansions ect each game are 20gb+

So what I need to do is get a new HD, not ssd as i cannot afford it at the mo.

Ideally I want to copy everything from the main 1tb drive i use and paste it on a new bigger drive i want to buy

the thing is I do not want to uninstall the operating system and re-install everything, no way as its too much.

So what to do? I mean i thought:

Get a 4TB drive, connect it, copy absolutely everything from main drive, paste it in new 4tb drive and then connect the 4tb HD with pasted contents in the same esata slot of where the old drive was, will it work?

or what do do and how?
 
with steam you can move the library to anywhere you want and then tell steam where this new library is and then you will get your games back again on the new HDD.

I don't use origin or ubisoft so cannot comment on moving them over but would think it would be similar to steam

I would just get the one 4TB drive and do what you said, will free up space on your main OS drive
 
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skyripper said:
Use Macrium Reflect to clone from one drive to the other.



^ Shamelessy blagged from elsewhere on this forum.
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so basicaly I can install the 4tb drive and copy everything from the old hd to the new one?

Will i have any issues with the operating system? like when i start the pc will it boot up from the new drive and will everything be ok
 
what you will do is use the above link and software to clone the current HDD over to the new HDD

once its complete turn off the PC, disconnect the old HDD and leave the new HDD connected and it should boot from the new HDD without any issues and you should be good to go if it doesn't boot just make sure you have the new HDD selected to boot from instead of it trying to find the old one
 
Also when you remove the old HDD it can help to plug the new HDD into the sata port the old HDD was using. Most of the time this isn't needed, but on some occasions there can be problems using a different port.
 
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